pelota

English

Noun

pelota (uncountable)

  1. any of a variety of Spanish sports played against a wall

See also

Anagrams

Esperanto

Adjective

pelota (accusative singular pelotan, plural pelotaj, accusative plural pelotajn)

  1. singular future passive participle of peli

Finnish

Verb

pelota

  1. Indicative present connegative form of pelottaa.
  2. Second-person singular imperative present form of pelottaa.
  3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of pelottaa.

Anagrams

French

Verb

pelota

  1. third-person singular past historic of peloter

Galician

Como jogavã a pelota os mancebos ("how the young men were playing with the ball"), 13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria

Etymology

From Old Occitan pelota or Old French pelote, from Latin pila (“ball”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /peˈlɔta̝/
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Noun

pelota f (plural pelotas)

  1. ball
    • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 440:
      tijña ẽna mão hũa pelota pequena, et asynaua pera a deytar á agia, et ela fogía et voaua ata que a pelota passaua per ela
      he hold in his hand a small ball, and he was making signals to throw it to the eagle, and the eagle fled and flew until the ball passed by
    Synonyms: balón, bóla
  2. butter pellet
  3. an abnormal growth in the legs of the cattle
  4. (figuratively, vulgar, usually in the plural) testicle

References

  • “pelota” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “pelota” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “pelota” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “pelota” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  • “pelota” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

    Portuguese

    Noun

    pelota f (plural pelotas)

    1. a small ball or sphere

    Spanish

    Etymology

    Via Provençal from Latin pila.

    Noun

    pelota f (plural pelotas)

    1. ball

    pelota m, f (plural pelotas)

    1. teacher's pet; brown noser

    Usage notes

    Teacher's pet sense: term may be m or f depending on the gender of the person being referred to. An associated hand gesture is waving a hand up or down as if bouncing a ball.

    Derived terms

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